DIY Succulent Pallet Table | Far Out Flora
Max with the new Succulent Table. Can you believe that our latest DIY project was once just a couple of junky pallets and some scrappy table legs? Crazy…if I didn’t have photos, I wouldn’t believe it myself. The pallets. First bit of advice, deconstructing pallets are a big pain unless you have the right tools…and our hammer and wall scrapper wasn’t quite doing the trick. Couple good planks. Love the scares of time left on these chunks of pallet wood. Attaching the legs. After pulling apart two pallets, we used the 2 x 4 sized boards to make a rectangular frame to attached the appropriated table legs. Dry run for fittings. Like TV magic (and 2 days later), the table was more or less put together. Megan with some semps. After a weekend of slivers and sweat, we finally got to plant this baby. Getting messy. 3/8 inch holes where drilled in the bottom, and we decided to go with a fast draining cactus mix. Packing them in. Yeah, we didn’t hold back on jamming them. Succulents playing together.
Being Vegan in a Speciesist World
“I will continue to be a vegetarian even if the whole world started to eat meat. This is my protest against the conduct of the world.” Isaac Bashevis Singer – Nobel Prize winning author We live in a world where the vast majority of people consider it perfectly acceptable to use and kill animals for food, clothing, entertainment and other unnecessary purposes. Not only do we enslave, exploit, torture and slaughter animals by the tens of billions every year, we do so in order to provide ourselves with food that is not healthy for us, and other products that we simply do not need. Not only is this extreme violence against animals sanctioned by the legal structure of society and accepted almost without question by most people, but in some kind of bizarre confusion, it is actually promoted, encouraged, and even celebrated. Image: In Defense of Animals
Indian Masala Chai Tea Recipe - Made Just Right
Masala Chai Tea is one of the most popular beverages in all of India. The exact recipes for chai tea vary by region and can be made with various different spices, though this recipe combines some of the most popular into one delicious hot drink… or you can even serve it over ice for a refreshing iced chai “latte”! Ingredients: 2 cups of water 1 cup Earth Balance® Original Soymilk 2 teaspoons black tea leaves (good choices: Assam, English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Darjeeling) 1 cardamom pod 1 clove 1/2 inch piece of ginger 1/4 inch piece of cinnamon stick Sugar to taste In a sauce pot, combine the Earth Balance® Soymilk, water and spices, bring to a boil. When it begins to boil, add the tea leaves and keep on a rolling boil for 2 minutes or till the tea leaves are brewed and the tea has a dark golden color. We love this combo of floral tea with warm spices, perfect for the onset of fall! What is your favorite type of tea? Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) Related Posts
8 Most Profitable Plants To Grow
Ginseng Roots Can Bring Up to $400 a Pound Growing plants for profit is a great way to turn your gardening skills into serious cash. While most of us immediately think of tomatoes or salad greens, the most profitable plants are specialty crops that are not always found in a home vegetable garden. Many specialty crops can bring as much as $90,000 per acre, and are quite easy to grow. Best of all, most specialty crops can be grown without a full-time commitment. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. These are my favorite profitable plants, as they all enjoy strong demand year after year, yet can be grown by anyone who has, or can learn a few basic gardening skills.
How to Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes in 4 Square Feet
On many occasions, we've been tempted to grow our own potatoes. They're fairly low maintenance, can be grown in a pot or in the ground, last a fairly long time if stored properly, and can be very nutritious (high in potassium and vitamin C). Here's more incentive: according to this article, you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 sq. feet. Learn how after the jump... According to this article from the Seattle Times, potatoes planted inside a box with this method can grow up to 100 pounds of potatoes in just 4 square feet. Lumber Seed potatoes Soil Careful attention to watering The Times' guide for building a potato growing box yields up to a 100 lbs. of potatoes in a mere 4 square feet is shown below: Plant as early as April or as late as August 1, with an approximated 3 month till harvest turnaround time. Here are some pointers from the article: Cut apart larger seed potatoes, making sure there are at least two eyes in each piece you plant. Seattle Times via LifeHacker.
Small Footprint, Big Yield: Create an Easy Micro Organic Urban Garden Today! | Urban Gardens | Unlimited Thinking For Limited Spaces
April 28, 2009 by Robin Plaskoff Horton There are two things urban gardeners are short on: space and time. The Urban Garden, brainchild of Bill Arquitt, resolves both of these issues, making it efficient and simple to plant a vegetable garden with up to 55 plants in a 3-foot deep by 4-foot wide footprint. The contained six level tiered system is nearly maintenance-free, eliminating heavy weeding, and its northwestern cedar construction renders it naturally bug repellent.
The Immorality of Eating Meat: An all creatures Bible message
Each sermon is published in large print for use in preaching, and for easy reading by several people gathered around the computer monitor. By Frank L. Hoffman, Pastor Genesis 8:21 9:3 Leviticus 19:18 Deuteronomy 6:5 Proverbs 12:10 Micah 6:8 Matthew 7:15-20 Galatians 5:22-23 For more than 30 years, my wife Mary and I have recognized the immorality involved in meat eating and in the exploitation of animals. Unfortunately, this is something that the world largely ignores. Most of what we have been working on can be found in the more than 75,000 documents on our web site: www.all-creatures.org Today, we are going to limit our discussion to the immorality of meat eating as it applies to both the animals and human beings. More than 2,700 years ago the prophet Micah told the straying Israelites how God wanted them to live morally. 8. When it comes to the treatment of animals who are raised commercially, justice, love, and kindness have for the most part been removed from our sense of human morality.
All About Tea
Ngo Family Farm: garlic tea for the garden
I recently noticed some little bugs attacking my house plants and indoor citrus trees, so I whipped up a batch of garlic tea to help me combat the problem. I forget where I first learned about this, but I've been using it for years now to help with pest control on plants both inside and out. It's best used as a preventative measure or when you catch an infestation in the early stages, but it's a simple and organic way to keep plants from being bad bug dinner. How to make Garlic Tea: 1. 2. 3. 4. A few notes for garden use: -I spray once a week in spring when I first plant, and then just every so often throughout summer or when I notice a problem -I spray early or late in the day, but I try not to spray when the bees are out and about -The spray doesn't seem to keep away the beneficial insects - I've still seen ladybugs in the garden after using it. Do you use natural pest control in the garden, too?
